DHAKA – Trials of Islamist leaders on alleged charges of war crimes
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“The present secular government has been
attacking Islam to satisfy leftist and secular groups,” AHM Abdul Kader,
coordinator of Dhaka-based Center for Study of Peace and Security
(CSPS), told OnIslam.net.
“Government has turned itself into a
police state and is harassing the opposition and particularly the
Islamic forces and parties in order to create a safe haven for the
growth of atheist and secularist forces."
Bangladesh has been in turmoil over the trial of Islamist leaders on alleged war crimes during the 1971 independence war.
Tension
further escalated over postings by bloggers seen as defaming Islam and
Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him).
The turbulence
also followed constitutional amendments that eliminated the state
principles of absolute trust and faith in Allah the Almighty.
Abdul
Kader opines that the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is
trying to eliminate Islamic forces and leaders by trying them on alleged
war crimes during the independence war.
Professor Mujahidul Islam, a senior teacher at Dhaka University, shares a similar opinion.
“The
government has dealt a serious blow to the majority of Muslims by
eliminating the state principles of absolute trust and faith in the
Almighty from the constitution,” he said.
He believes that the
incumbent government has given itself up to a secularist group deeply
engaged in conspiring against Islam and Muslims in Bangladesh.
He
thinks that an atheist and leftist quarter within the government has now
the upper hand to “de-Islamize” the country through infusion of
fragmentation and conflicts.
Mujahidul Islam, a former chairman of
the finance department of Dhaka University, describes government
attempt to ban Islamic politics in Bangladesh as “undemocratic and
unconstitutional”.
He says this type of thinking and decision will generate bad effects and cause disunity, hostility and disorder in the country.
De-Islamization
Many Bangladeshis believe that the government of Sheikh Hasina is actively working to “de-Islamize” the Asian Muslim country.
“The
very act of eliminating the constitutional provision of absolute trust
and faith of Allah is a big conspiracy against Bangladesh and Muslims,”
Rawshan Ara Swapna, a writer and former student of political science at
Dhaka University, told OnIslam.net.
“Their target is to turn Bangladesh into a secularist country.”
She
agrees that the aim of the war crimes trials is to abolish Islam and
the Islamic movement from Bangladesh in order to satisfy secular and
communist forces.
“But they wouldn’t see success in this country as the third largest Muslim country,” she stressed.
Golam Mostafa Bhuiyan, general secretary of Bangladesh NAP, an opposition party, agrees.
“The
present Awami League government has created conflict and clash in
Bangladesh by eliminating the state principles of absolute trust and
faith in the Almighty Allah as enshrined in the Bangladeshi
constitution,” he told OnIslam.net.
He believes that attempts to reinstitute secularism in the constitution would be a big mistake by the government.
“The present government is itself a party to a conspiracy to make Bangladesh a non-religious country.”
Mohammad Mustafijur Rahman, a businessman, shares a similar opinion.
“Elimination
of the trust and faith of Allah from the Bangladeshi constitution by
the Awami League government would not be acceptable to Muslims and it
was a cruel onslaught on Islamic values,” he told OnIslam.net.
He
believes that the government move to replace iman (faith) with
secularism in the constitution would be rejected by Muslims of
Bangladesh.
“Bangladeshi Muslims will resist all moves toward
de-Islamization of Bangladesh by present secular government’s conspiracy
insallah.”
Bangladesh is the world's third-largest Muslim majority nation with a population of some 148 million.
(onislam)
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